Bowling a Ripper?

[Johnr]

Was JTR Dyslectic ?

Maybe Jack the Ripper was not only anti-social,
but maybe he was also dysslectic?

Back in his day, lots of people were reading " Bodice Rippers".

DISCLAIMER: Before someone flicks this post to the Yellow Press OUT THERE,
I posted this remark purely as a pathetic and probably unfunny joke.

JOHN RUFFELS.

[Graham]

Reminds me of those old Fosters Lager ads in which that sweaty Strine git Paul Hogan takes a deep pull at a can of golden frostie, and says, "Jeez, that's a ripper!"

Or something like that.

Owzat?

Graham

[Robert]

I never knew Philip Hutchinson was a three-legged man. He is surplus in the leg division to the tune of one.

[Sam Flynn]

The cricketing term seems much older than I'd have thought. The Oxford English Dictionary has this to say:

ripper (3): A person or thing especially good; spec. an attractive young woman. In recent use, chiefly Austral. slang. Bell's Life 26 Aug 1838 , "One of Mr. Mynn's best balls, technically a ‘ripper’, took the top of the middle stump."

[Sam Flynn]

The next listed definition is arguably even more interesting:

ripper (4): One who pursues a reckless course. (First ref. 1877).

[Magpie]

Nice finds, Sam!

[miss marple]

Then there is the public school expression, 'having a ripping time' Ripper or ripping is used the way the young used 'wicked' today' the opposite of its meaning,something good or attractive.
I have a postcard from 1910. Two very pretty girls talking to a young man on a beach.
The titlel is Pebbles from the beach at Aberayun.
The bottom line is 'Taking about pebbles, I found two today, such Rippers, the best in Aberayon.
Cant post it don't have a scanner.
Miss Marple

[Phil Carter]

Totally Ripping..

Hi all,

MM... The Aussies still use... "..that was a real ripper" in cricket amongst other things, and I can remember a tv show with Michael Palin in the 70.s called Ripping Yarns. "A real rip snorter", "a ripping good time" I have heard too.

best wishes

Phil

[miss marple]

Foud some other meanings in ' historical slang'
Ripper, In boxing ,a knockout blow 1860
A notable lie
A longshoreman taking fish inland to sell late 19th cent
Ripping also refers to a ceremony at Kings College Cambridge involving the ripping of the gown at the departure of a senior colleger.
Miss Marple